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Category Archive: Technology

When your backups vanish

If you last backed up an iOS/iPadOS device to iCloud over 6 months ago, or backed up to a WD My Book Live, those backups have probably vanished. How to safeguard them.

June 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Shortcuts are coming to macOS

First AppleScript, then shell scripts, and in 2005 Automator: now Apple is bringing iOS Shortcuts to macOS 12. Will it make a difference, though?

June 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Will changes to notarization make any difference?

WWDC this year again featured a session on notarization. Here’s a summary of its status in Big Sur, and details of what’s next.

June 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Code in ARM Assembly: Controlling flow

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Forget about structured code, branching in assembly is based on GOTO with labels. Here’s how to get started, with an idiom for the switch statement in Swift.

June 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Rethinking recovery and re-installing macOS

How useful is the traditional panacea of re-installing macOS in Big Sur? And is it worth maintaining an external recovery disk to deal with problems?

June 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 104

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 104. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Leave, […]

June 21, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Code in ARM Assembly: Working with pointers

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Using different addressing modes and offset specifications to load and store in memory. Includes a summary of ARM64 Operand Architecture.

June 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Hardware legacies

Content Caching server originated in 2005, as a feature in Mac OS X Server, which sold Xserves. Time Machine came in 2007, to support Time Capsules. Those legacies are so different, though.

June 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 104

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Leave, cease and […]

June 19, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: version and build numbers

Where to see them, how they’re constructed, Apple’s rules, how they are created, and how even Apple doesn’t use them according to its own rules.

June 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

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